Between 1922 and 1934 the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley led joint expeditions of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania to Ur in southern Iraq, the city of the Sumerians. From 1926 to 1930 he excavated the Royal Cemetery, with about 1,850 graves, of which 16 were rich royal tombs from about 2600 to 2500 BC. In the tomb of Queen Puabi lay lavish gold jewellery, and in 'death pits' were the bodies of servants, soldiers and musicians who seem to have been sacrificed to accompany their rulers. The finds included the Standard of Ur and the bull-headed lyres. Woolley also found a layer of flood silt.
Before and after
- 1927Origins of Super League Greece
- 1927Uncertainty principle
- 1927Davisson–Germer experiment
- 1927Lemaitre proposes an expanding universe
- from c. 1927 to 1930Leonard Woolley excavates the Royal Cemetery of Ur
- 20 February 1927Birth of Sidney Poitier
- 6 March 1927Birth of Gabriel García Márquez
- 12 April 1927Shanghai massacre of 1927
- 16 April 1927Birth of Benedict XVI
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